When it comes to employee burnout; prevention is better than cure

Employees have to be fresh in the mind, motivated and energetic if they have to be productive. Employees whose talents are recognized by the organization are more fired up about their job. They are likely to be more innovative, more creative and more loyal.

On the other hand, pressurizing the employees and stretching them beyond the point of their endurance threshold leads to burnout. In fast paced work environments in which everything needs to be accomplished at short notice under quick deadlines, employees are constantly under pressure. Employee burnout is a major issue for organizations.

When the focus is only on accomplishing the goals within the set deadline and on nothing else, all the energies that the employees expect to put on their creative fulfillment get diverted towards meeting task requirements and completing them within deadlines.

Organizations that are under pressure to have work completed from their employees, because they face stiff competition devote a lot lesser time to employee development and wellbeing than they should be doing. As a result of too much pressure all the time, employees experience and display these typical symptoms of burnout among many others:

Feeling edgy and tense at work

Getting upset at the smallest of provocations

Coming late to office

Feeling sick

Become more and more petulant

Experiencing low drive at work

Feeling no pride or happiness at engaging in their work

Employees facing burnout are detrimental to organizations

Employee burnout is a serious issue for organizations because they end up losing their star performers. Highly talented workers need to be given a variety of challenging tasks from time to time; failing which they can get bored very fast and can burn out quickly.

Is there a particular class or section of the workforce that is more prone to burnouts? Statista.com found out during a survey it carried out in 2015 that the Millennials are most likely to be stressed to a point of experiencing burnout. This class of employees was followed closely by those of Gen X.

This is a serious piece of statistics for the American economy, because it is estimated that the Millennials will make up about half of the entire American workforce by 2020. When such a major emerging workforce is already feeling burnt out; it means that something needs to be done urgently about burnout at the workplace.

If this is bad news; the worse news is that while the Millennials and the Gen-Xers are the most vulnerable to employee burnout; they are by no means the only ones. Other employee groups are not far behind.

Understand the ways of dealing with employee burnout

How do organizations deal with such a major issue as employee burnout? This is the topic a highly valuable and pertinent webinar from TrainHR, a leading provider of professional trainings for the human resources industry, will be offering. Jan Triplett, who is the CEO of the internationally recognized Business Success Center and is an entrepreneur, author, speaker and small business activist, as well as a frequent keynote speaker on business growth models, funding and pricing strategies, alliance building, personnel management, and sales processes, will be the speaker at this webinar.

The key to dealing with employee burnout is to take recourse to the old adage, “prevention is better than cure”. It is easier and much more sensible to prevent employee burnout than to deal with it once it actually seeps in. It is thus important for everyone concerned, such as leaders, managers, HRs and others related to employee wellbeing, to recognize the signs of employee burnout early enough to spot it and take early preemptive action than to allow it to grow and become a full-blown problem that comes in the way of employees’ work life and personal lives.

Jan will highlight how to recognize the early warning signs of employee burnout. She will suggest not only how to deal with employees who are prone to burnout and the ways of dealing with it; she will also show how to see the signs in one’s own self and take remedial actions. She will cover the following areas at this webinar:

What research tells us about who is at risk and why

Creating a company Burnout Plan that includes identification, addressing burnout, and prevention procedures

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